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I Was a Shoplifter
Exposing Today's Most Alarming Crime Ring!
In 1950s California, the police force tries to infiltrate and neutralize a shoplifting crime ring operating in major department stores.
- Original title
- I Was a Shoplifter
- Language
- EN
- Country
- US
- Budget
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- Revenue
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Nov 26, 2023 · via TMDB
When the daughter of a judge is caught shoplifting, she has to sign a confession in order to go free. "Faye" (Mona Freeman) is not the only one in the shop who's been apprehended in this annual $100m scam - "Jeff" (Scott Brady) has also been arrested and he is determined to befriend his new rookie friend. She works in the library and receives a visitor summoning her to a bar where she meets up with the manipulative "Ina" (Andrea King) and now she finds herself involved in a blackmail plot to ensure she continues to lift goods to order for the gang. Luckily for all, "Jeff" isn't quite what he seems and what now ensues is a decently enough paced drama that illustrates just how easy it is to steal and just how lucrative a business it is for the perpetrators. There's a strangely miscast, and rather weedy, Tony Curtis aboard here as the rather un-menacing enforcer "Pepe" and at times it adopts a slightly documentary approach to the polling techniques used to ensnare these criminals, but there's enough chemistry between Brady and Freeman and King reminds me of a baddie from a Rathbone/Bruce "Sherlock Holmes" film. The ending is a bit rushed, but it's still worth a watch if you want to know how easy it is to sell-on a dodgy three-blade electric razor!
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Scott Brady
Jeff Andrews
Mona Freeman
Faye Burton
Andrea King
Ina Perdue
Tony Curtis
Pepe
Charles Drake
Herb Klaxon
Gregg Martell
The Champ
Larry Keating
Harry Dunson
Robert Gist
Barkie Neff
Rock Hudson
Si Swanson - Store Detective
Nestor Paiva
Deputy Sheriff Gomez
Paul Fierro
Pedro - Mechanic
Bess Flowers
Glove Counter Sales Clerk
James Best
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Lane Bradford
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Nana Bryant
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Peggie Castle
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Steve Darrell
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Richard Irving
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Irving Glassberg
Director of Photography
Bud Westmore
Makeup Artist
Jesse Hibbs
Assistant Director
Charles Lamont
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